Fault Analysis Group part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This research group at University College Dublin carries out scientific research on all aspects of faults and fractures and applies the results to practical problems, principally in the fields of ...

Faults part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site, which accompanies an introductory structural geology class at the University of Leeds, UK, contains information on faults. Topics include normal faults, thrust faults, strike-slip faults, ...

Teaching Resources in Structural Geology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This collection of web-based teaching resources is intended to assist educators in teaching structural geology. There are sections of materials on basic structures (folds, faults, shear zones, and ...

Formation of spaced cleavage and folds in brittle limestone by dissolution part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Short, well written article that presents a nice case for the role of dissolution in cleavage formation and is an early article on this subject. This is a good article for a class discussion on ...

Questioning the Delphic Oracle part of SERC Print Resource Collection
A wonderful detective story that deals with locating and mapping faults in the field and migration of fluids with dissolved, intoxicating volatiles through permeable fault zone rocks. The connection ...

Precambrian and Mesozoic Plate Margins: Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with field guides for the 8th International Conference on Basement Tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This volume describes the geology along the routes of two field trips. The papers in the first part of the volume take the reader from the Stillwater Complex across the Beartooth Plateau, to the ...

Montana/Alberta Thrust Belt and Adjacent Foreland. Volume II: Road Logs, Presentation Abstracts, and Foothills Analyses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This volume was published as part of the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Montana Geological Society, and includes a variety of information related to the geology of the fold-and-thrust belt of NW ...

Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This guide describes many of the major geologic features of the Park. It is directed toward the Park visitor with little to no background in geology. The guide begins with a short introduction to the ...

Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Western Montana part of SERC Print Resource Collection
From Great Falls, to Butte, Helena Glacier National Park and Spokane, this field trip crosses onto the leading edge of the Rocky Mountain thrust belt and proceeds to the stratiform copper-silver ...

Magmatic arc fault systems, deformation partitioning and emplacement of granitic complexes in the Coastal Cordillera, north Chilean Andes (25 degrees, 30 minutes South to 27 degrees South) part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract: Three fault systems were responsible for Permian to Late Cretaceous deformation of the overriding plate of the Andean convergent margin in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile ((25 ...